packaging a package with a duplicate name ?

[Caolán McNamara]

I'm packaging jfreereport and one of the dependencies is a java package
called "libxml",
i.e. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51669
"LibXML is a namespace aware SAX-Parser" and is no relation to the c
libxml/libxml2. What's an acceptable name for the package given that
"libxml" is taken, libxml-java ? libxml-jfreereport ?

C.

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 11:16 +0100, Caolan McNamara wrote:
>  I'm packaging jfreereport and one of the dependencies is a java
> package
>  called "libxml",
>  i.e. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51669
>  "LibXML is a namespace aware SAX-Parser" and is no relation to the c
>  libxml/libxml2. What's an acceptable name for the package given that
>  "libxml" is taken, libxml-java ? libxml-jfreereport ? 
That's unfortunate that they decided to stomp on someone else's name.

jfreereport-xml

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[Dan Horák]

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams píše v So 05. 07. 2008 v 08:46 -0400:
>  On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 11:16 +0100, Caolan McNamara wrote:
>  > I'm packaging jfreereport and one of the dependencies is a java package
>  > called "libxml",
>  > i.e. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51669
>  > "LibXML is a namespace aware SAX-Parser" and is no relation to the c
>  > libxml/libxml2. What's an acceptable name for the package given that
>  > "libxml" is taken, libxml-java ? libxml-jfreereport ?
>  
>  That's unfortunate that they decided to stomp on someone else's name.
>  
>  jfreereport-xml 
maybe all the libs from this project should be placed into the
"jfreereport-" namespace


		Dan

[David Woodhouse]

On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 08:46 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
>  On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 11:16 +0100, Caolan McNamara wrote:
>  > I'm packaging jfreereport and one of the dependencies is a java package
>  > called "libxml",
>  > i.e. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51669
>  > "LibXML is a namespace aware SAX-Parser" and is no relation to the c
>  > libxml/libxml2. What's an acceptable name for the package given that
>  > "libxml" is taken, libxml-java ? libxml-jfreereport ?
>  
>  That's unfortunate that they decided to stomp on someone else's name. 
It's unfortunate that Java folks feel they have to reimplement the
world, regardless of the nomenclature they use.

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[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le samedi 05 juillet 2008 à 14:33 +0100, David Woodhouse a écrit :
>  On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 08:46 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
>  > On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 11:16 +0100, Caolan McNamara wrote:
>  > > I'm packaging jfreereport and one of the dependencies is a java package
>  > > called "libxml",
>  > > i.e. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51669
>  > > "LibXML is a namespace aware SAX-Parser" and is no relation to the c
>  > > libxml/libxml2. What's an acceptable name for the package given that
>  > > "libxml" is taken, libxml-java ? libxml-jfreereport ?
>  > 
>  > That's unfortunate that they decided to stomp on someone else's name.
>  
>  It's unfortunate that Java folks feel they have to reimplement the
>  world, regardless of the nomenclature they use. 
You mean, unlike the perl or lisp guys?

There is a lot of bad things to be said about Java but this particular
failure is not Java-specific.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot